Parents have waited long enough for school choice

12:53 PM,
Aug. 29, 2013

Written by

Robert Danos, Hendersonville

Commenting on education reform in North Carolina, a letter writer stated that under the new Opportunity Scholarship law "parents are given taxpayers' monies to send their children to private schools. Then the rich will get better educated and richer faster - and the poor will get less well educated and poorer faster." That statement is pure misinformation. The law is that families who qualify for a voucher must have an income that "cannot exceed 133 percent of the free and reduced lunch program." The "rich" already have options. It is the poorest kids in the ...